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  Joe Pasternak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (now Şimleu Silvaniei, Romania), Pasternak was a successful film producer in Germany and Austria by the time he was twenty-eight years old.
Pasternak is the father of Michael Joseph Pasternak, the 1960's Radio Disk jockey known as Emperor Rosko.
Joe Pasternak died from complcations arising from Parkinson's disease only a few days shy of his 90th birthday.
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 Joe Pasternak - Biography - Moviefone
Pasternak wangled a job as second assistant director at Paramount in 1923; within three years, he was manager of Universal Studio's Berlin operations, a position he acquired in a roundabout fashion after directing an El Brendel two-reeler.
One year later, Pasternak rescued the flagging film career of Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again (1939); as with Durbin, he saved Dietrich by demystifying her lofty image and making her more accessible to the public.
Pasternak remained at MGM until his retirement in 1968, shortly after producing three of Elvis Presley's best musicals (including the immortal Girl Happy).
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He was the rebellious son of producer Joe Pasternak, the man who made "Destry Rides Again" with Marlene Dietrich, and "Spinout" with Elvis Presley.
Pasternak was notorious for throwing records he didn't like through the portholes, even when they were on the label of the record company that owned the boat.
He was fired repeatedly for hijinx such as sabotaging a Christian evangelist, who'd bought time on the station, by mixing in the sounds of lovemaking with the religious chorales.
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 Joe Pasternak Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Pasternak also cast Mario Lanza in "The Toast of New Orleans" (1950) and "The Great Caruso" (1951), and rejuvenated the career of Marlene Dietrich with "Destry Rides Again" (1939).
In 1945 Pasternak fought MGM for permission to film the now classic live-action/animated sequence in "Anchors Aweigh", in which Gene Kelly dances with the cartoon mouse, Jerry (at a cost of $150,000).
Over a 40-year career, Pasternak was responsible for 105 films, mostly family-oriented, frothy fare which earned a total of some $400 million.
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 Gloria Jean's Homepage
The little Girl singing at right is 11-year old Gloria Jean Schoonover of Scranton, Pa. A year ago she was introduced to Joe Pasternak, No. 1 producer for Universal Pictures, who is credited with the discovery of Deanna Durbin.
Joe Pasternak hopes to begin again with Gloria Jean the picture cycle that grossed a vital $10,000,000 for Universal Pictures.
Pasternak had Gloria Jean watch her on the lot for six months before he started the Under-pup.
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 Meningar.com om Pasternak. Boris, Kudinova-Pasternak, PASTERNAK mm.
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"...Pasternak believed that, for the poet, it was was essential to overcome this temptation and the fear of the future, and to continue working when art and even spiritual existence were no longer secure, a theory Pasternak expressed through the metaphor of '..
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 features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Pasternak was searching for a special composer to write new songs for Lanza's next film, and sensing that Lanza's and Brodszky's "styles were harmonious," he sold Louis B. Mayer (and Lanza) on Brodszky.
Pasternak said that Brodszky told him it was a little tune he used to play in the café in Budapest in 1933.
Because You're Mine (1952): Producer Joe Pasternak thought a change of pace (for the singer) would be beneficial at this point.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Peter : Main
Producer Joe Pasternak was making "Deanna Durbin pictures" long before he'd discovered Dur...
Producer Joe Pasternak was making "Deanna Durbin pictures" long before he'd discovered Durbin -- and indeed, long before he'd left Hungary.
Pasternak's 1935 musical Peter stars Franciska Gaal as Eva, a 17-year-old gamine who ekes out a living as a street singer.
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 Presenting Lily Mars - 1943
However, "Smart Ol' Joe Pasternak" (as Esther Williams would later call him) had just come to MGM from producing a successful series of musicals at Universal Studios starring Deanna Durbin (Judy's chief "rival" during the early days at MGM), and he saw the story as a chance to finally work with Judy.
Judy went to L.B. Mayer, and he brought in Pasternak and told him to shoot a new finale in the MGM style..
Pasternak enlisted the help of the burgeoning "Freed Unit" (so named after producer Arthur Freed).
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 JewishJournal.com
I was very disappointed that Tom Teicholz’s article, "Hungarians in Hollywood" (April 18), omitted any reference or mention of my late uncle, Joe Pasternak, who was among the most prominent and successful Hollywood movie producers from the 1930s to the late 1960s.
However, the exclusion of the late Joe Pasternak is a serious oversight, which reflects poorly on the article’s author and The Jewish Journal.
Joe Pasternak was one of the most renowned and celebrated producers in Hollywood during the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s.
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 Joe Pasternak - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Joe Pasternak has a star...
Joe Pasternak died from complcations arising from Parkinson's disease only...
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 The New Pictures -- Monday, Dec. 18, 1939 -- Page 1 -- TIME
As entertainment, Producer Pasternak's western, with hardly more pretensions than a cow town, is likely to be voted best of the year.
But to the sudden autumnal flurry of studio offers, Cinemactress Dietrich, grateful to Producer Pasternak for giving her another chance when other producers would only take her out to supper, replied that her option belongs to daddy.
Neither Producer Pasternak nor anybody else could foresee what Samuel S. Hinds (who was the father who played with fireworks in You Can't Take It With You) would do to Destry Rides Again.
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 trivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Metro Goldwyn Mayer has announced plans for a sequel to its "Anchors Aweigh" under the title "All Ashore." The leads, as in the first picture, will be taken by Gene Kelly (Now in the Navy), Frank Sinatra, and Kathryn Grayson.
It will have the same producer, Joe Pasternak and the same director, George Sidney.
The musical is to be based on a story by Robert S. Taplinger and deals with the after-discharge adventures of the two sailors of "Anchors Aweigh" in converting a baby flat top into a showboat.
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 george sidney - february director of the month
Pasternak and Sidney released their third film in Technicolor, the sizzling Holiday in Mexico (1946).
While Joe Pasternak's musical unit relied on the tried-and-true, old-fashioned 'operetta' format for musical films, across the studio lot Arthur Freed's unit attempted to break new ground.
While Freed and Pasternak stole the spotlight as MGM's top musical producers, other great talents were working away in the Dream Factory.
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 Amazon.com: "Joe Pasternak": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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They sent their man in Berlin, Joe Pasternak (later to become Universal's top producer), to discuss things with Marlene.
The sugary wholesomeness was the stock in trade of the producer, Joe Pasternak; characters in his movies always look scrubbed and sexless, and act embarrassingly young.
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 Gloria Jean's Homepage
Her teacher noticed an ad in the newspaper that producer Joe Pasternak was touring the country, holding auditions for the lead in a Universal musical picture.
I had no makeup on, was in pigtails, and had crooked teeth like most kids." When it came time to sing, she said the piano was out of tune.
Pasternak liked that and said, "The kids got spunk." Gloria was told to come back the following day and was told they would let her know in three weeks.
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 German 43: Resources: Biographies: Koster, Henry
Because of the takeover of the Nazis, he cannot stay to see the premiere of his second feature, Das hässliche Mädchen (1933), starring Dolly Haas, and co-written with Felix Joachimson.
Kosterlitz firsts emigrates to France, then to Budapest and Vienna where he works with Joe Pasternak.
Now calling himself Henry Koster, he teams up again with Pasternak and Joachimson—who now calls himself Jackson—to direct Three Smart Girls (1936), a sensational success which turns the unknown teenager Deanna Durbin into a major star.
www.dartmouth.edu /~germ43/resources/biographies/koster-h.html   (213 words)

  
 A Date With Judy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Richard Thorpe; Screenplay, Dorothy Cooper and Dorothy Kingsley; Cinematography, Robert Surtees; Music Direction, Georgie Stoll; Choreography, Stanley Donen.
.made the greatest impact in Joe Pasternak's jolly little production.
A Date With Judy was the 9th highest-grossing film of the year.
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 destryridesagain
George Marshall's Destry Rides Again hardly bares any resemblance to Max Brand's novel it's supposedly based on, Tom Mix's 1932 version was more faithful to the book's theme of the hero revenging himself on the twelve jurors who unjustly sentenced him.
Producer Joe Pasternak shoots instead to relive the role that Marlene Dietrich made famous of the sexy bar room chanteuse of the 1930 The Blue Angel, in an effort to revive her waning career.
It worked, as her career received a big shot in the arm.
www.sover.net /~ozus/destryridesagain.htm   (415 words)

  
 Article: Chapter/The Great Lanza by Joe Pasternak
According to several who were there, Joe Pasternak, the prolific MGM producer who made Mario's Metro films, was a somewhat hypocritical figure.
Whatever the reality, there seems a consensus that had Mario linked up with Arthur Freed or Vincent Minelli instead of Pasternak, the overall quality of Mario's MGM films would have been better.
Later, at Warner's for Serenade, his hair was changed again.
www.rense.com /excursions/lanza/lanzabooks/patarticle.html   (3372 words)

  
 Joe Pasternak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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